Curse

Cold · Dec 21, 2005, 02:05 PM // 14:05

Here is my monk build that I use for SF FA farming.

Skills:
Blessed Signet (to gain energy)
Life Barrier [elite] (to prevent damage)
Life Bond (to prevent damage)
Life Attunment (to help other monk heal keg holder)
Essence Bond (to gain energy)
Sympathetic Visage (to reduce damage and drain energy)
Arcane Condurum (to increase casting time)
Rebirth (well, s... happens)

Attribute Points:
Divine Favour - 15 (11+3+1)
Protection Prayers - 13 (10+3)
Illusion Magic - 10

Strategy:
There are 2 parts of FA farming.

Pre-SF - put Life Barrier and Life Bond on everyone except yourself. It will take some time
and it's a good idea not to rush until you set up all the bonds.
After that you will have -5 energy degen that is easily compensated by Blessed Signet (+23 energy per cast).
Stay half the screen away from the battle if possible as if some Ice Golem cast "Rust" on you
your Blessed Signet will be heavily damaged (even though it is still possible to hold
all bonds after that). Recast bonds that were stripped and from time to time cast Arcane Condurum on
Gnushers (they will need 6 seconds to animate a minion after that)
and Sympathetic Visage on someone who is taking physical damage. And watch out for your energy!!!

SF - cast Life Barrier, Life Bond, Essence Bond, Life Attunment on the keg holder
(exactly in that order). Bonds will be stripped from time to time so recast them as soon as possible.
At this point you have 0 energy regen but you gain plenty from Essence Bond (as a matter of fact
you will be all shiny from the energy coming to you from the keg holder

).
Keep Sympathetic Visage on the keg holder. It significantly reduces damage.
You can stamble upon monk boss in SF (Ivor or Brohn). At that point ask you keg
holder to stay very close to the boss, cast Sympathetic Visage on him and Arcane Condurum on the boss
(to slow healing process). If the keg holder gets any physical damage the monk boss looses 3 energy
per hit, so you drain him very quickly and thus it's easier to kill him.

BTW, ask your keg holder warrior if he has Healing Signet with him and if he does punch him
in the face with your The Yakslapper

exodite · Dec 24, 2005, 12:20 PM // 12:20

Healing Sig is useful in PvE because some of the teams ive bin with the monks tend not to heal untill its too late then call you a noob if you die and its good for a last resort heal it heals me for 130 which is great and allows me to fight on abit more

Crunch · Dec 24, 2005, 04:15 PM // 16:15

Life barrier is not neccesary on all people, i cast it only on war and on squishies if they are in trouble.

Balths spirit works better than essence bond when you are using life bond

Mantra of Inscriptions is a must in this build i feel as with only 4 points in inspiration magic it increase signet recharge time by 32%